How long planning decisions take in Bracknell Forest

Rolling twelve month windows overlap by nine months, so this reads as a trend rather than as four separate quarters. Only windows our records reach far enough back to measure in full are listed.

Against the same twelve months a year earlier, when the median was 66 days, Bracknell Forest has moved up 43 places in the table.

The headline median mixes every kind of application together. A householder extension and an outline application for a housing site are not the same job, and the difference between them is usually larger than the difference between two councils.

1. Amendments 56 decided 35 days
2. Prior approval 32 decided 42 days
3. Householder 118 decided 49 days
4. Lawful development 90 decided 50 days
5. Heritage and listed buildings 11 decided 56 days
6. Advertising 10 decided 65 days
7. Conditions 116 decided 65 days
8. Full applications 236 decided 66 days
9. Outline 14 decided 79 days
10. Trees 148 decided 109 days

How these types compare nationally

Bracknell Forest issued 857 decisions in the year to September 2026. Of the clear-cut outcomes, 92% were approvals: 675 granted against 57 refused. Split decisions, withdrawals and other outcomes sit outside that percentage rather than being counted as either.

Speed and approval rate are separate things. A council that refuses quickly is not doing the same job as one that negotiates an approval slowly, and neither figure alone says which served the applicant better.